BECAUSE IT IS - Poems and Drawings [Paperback Original - eighth printing]
Kenneth Patchen
From Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 11 January 2000
From Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 11 January 2000
About this Item
New Directions Paperbook 83. A later eighth printing published circa early 1960s - the book was originally published as a PBO in 1960. Cover design by Ray Johnson with a drawing by the author Kenneth Patchen. Illustrated throughout with drawings by the author. ***Near fine in glossy card covers. Covers completely undamaged without any tears or creases, just very lightly marked. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean and white. Spine tight. Some very light creasing to the top corners of a few pages. No tears. No dustwrapper as issued. ***204mm x 137mm. 84 pages plus two pages at the back of the book listing other New Directions Paperbooks. ***'Kenneth Patchen (December 13, 1911 - January 8, 1972) was an American poet and novelist. He experimented with different forms of writing and incorporated painting, drawing, and jazz music into his works, which have been compared with those of William Blake and Walt Whitman. Patchen's biographer wrote that he "developed in his fabulous fables, love poems, and picture poems a deep yet modern mythology that conveys a sense of compassionate wonder amidst the world's violence." Along with his friend and peer Kenneth Rexroth, he was a central influence on the San Francisco Renaissance and the Beat Generation.' [Wiki] ***'Kenneth Patchen has created many worlds--the terrible nightmare world of his "Albion Moonlight"--the distorting-mirror world of his "Shy POrnographer"--the haunting, tender inner world of the love poems--and now the comic, disturbing world of these new poems and drawings of "Because It Is". Klee and Goya, Edward Lear and Christian Morgenstern, Kit Smart and Blake are others who have had this genius for inventing a special universe of fantastic revelation. So powerful is Patchen's rejection of the world we read about in the newspapers--the supposedly real--that we find ourselves accepting the dictates of his imagination with full belief and following him with mounting excitement--and a sensation of joyous release--into a world that does exist because of Kenneth Patchen.' [Quote taken from the back cover] ***A nice early printing of this work by Kenneth Patchen. Uncommon to find in the UK. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Seller Inventory # PB339
Bibliographic Details
Title: BECAUSE IT IS - Poems and Drawings [...
Publisher: New Directions, 333 Sixth Avenue, New York 10014
Publication Date: 1960
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Cover design by Ray Johnson - drawing by Kenneth Patchen
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued
Edition: 5th or later Edition
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